The hot new TTC after MC thread - all welcome, bring a fish and all the posifrickentivity you can muster! Prepare to overshare.

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The Rules...

(1) A lady may only POAS on a Friday.
(2) Friday means the day that everyone calls Friday in the time zone where you spent the night.
(3) Rule (1) does not apply to POA-OPK-S, UNLESS they are being illegitimately used as surrogate HCG detectors, in which case Rule (1) most definitely does apply
(4) Rule (1) does not apply following a BFP because if you want to waste £25 a day POADigiS that's your prerogative
(5) Rule (1) does not apply if a lady is POAS in an attempt to get a BFN to prove she can start DTD with intent
(6) Rule (1) does not apply if a lady wants for unknown reason to pee on an actual stick, like a twig or some such, if that lady is unexpectedly caught short whilst tramping in the forest looking for bears.
(7) These rules (including Rule (1)) are subject to the change at any time if the ladies of the Posifrickentivity thread decide on a whim come up with empirical evidence to prove that it is luckier to POAS on any other day of the week
(8) Violators of Rule (1) shall be subject to fish throwing.

And as a grand finale, why not pledge to NEVER POAS before 14DPO?

Congratulations handsfull I can understand the wibblyness. Get yourself to a Dr on Monday. My GP has told me to go to him as soon as I get a BFP so that he can book me in for an early scan so I'm sure that they will be able to do similar for you to put your mind at rest.

DH and I had a big heart to heart on Thursday evening. We've decided to stop actively ttc for a month and just enjoy each other. I feel a lot less stressed already and TITH happened twice yesterday so it looks like our not ttc month might be more of a shagathon than when we are trying!

Welcome Teresa I hope your stay is short.

4/5 days po is too early for symptoms yes? Please give me a slap someone!

Far too early Doctor! Salmon coming your way

Welcome Teresa. Sorry you find yourself here but hopefully your stay will be short. I love your name, we’re about to paint our dining room in Farrow and Ball's Teresa's green.

Tea hope driving lesson went well. Must be a lot less stressful at your stage and how exciting to have your test soon. I'm only a few lessons in and still at the terrifying involuntary swearing stage or is that just me

Penguin have to be honest and say that I hate driving (tried two other times in my life) but I cheated this time and I'm just doing automatic, I honestly think it's best to do manual but I just couldn't get my head round gear changes. And I really need to get my licence :) will be glad when it's all over and I've been driving for a bit by myself, think it'll get my confindence up then. Hope your lessons go well :)

I'm with you doc-3dpo and had a bit of a boob-poke this morning! Trouting myself...

l loathed driving too, took forever to feel comfortable. You will get there!

It's actually not my first attempt at learning either tea. Well done for not letting it beat you. It's certainly not cheating to do automatic, whatever gets you through the test I reckon :-) I'm finding it a little easier outside of London with an extremely patient instructor! I really need to pass my test now I am out in the sticks. Plus, like you say, it's a great distraction.

I passed about a year and a half ago on my second test. It gets me down sometimes that the only things I've ever failed at have been things others find easy - driving and having a baby

Hope this isn't tmi but just got thick ewcm at what I thought was 4 dpo. So, I've probably ovulated significantly later than I thought, yes?
(Yes, I need another slap as this was a symptom for me when I got BFP)

Ah thanks for making me feel so welcome everyone! Penguin13 I love that colour - we've got F&B downpipe in our living room although it took a while to convince DH! Speaking of him, he wasn't keen to dtd this month when I was ovulating as I had a horrid vomiting bug so that opportunity was missed. Fingers crossed for a lot of BFPs for us all in Feb :)

I've not been in the mood to post for a few days, but dh has suggested toad in the hole for tea! Pahahaha!

Haha...I actually text DH from work and said to get the sausages out the freezer for TITH! Got home about half six and thought fuck it, so just ordered a Chinese!

TITH in both senses of the word tomorrow! Hehe x

tanny how are you? Have been thinking of you!

teresa the standard MC survivors "welcome but wish you weren't here" to you. Hope your stay is short and sweet!

sal MrP is an expert at turning every last thing I say in to an innuendo, if i told him to get the sausages out of the freezer, I'd come home to him with his pants round his ankles doing a willy dance most likely! I have to say, if he didn't make me laugh so much I think I'd have gone properly doolally by now. Bless his perverted little cotton socks! ;-)

Ps thanks to everyone for your kind words when I was being a blubbering wreck last night. These comments and their effects are always short lived but feel like the worst thing ever at the time, as you all know!

Parsley thanks for thinking of me. I'm still really struggling. I have tried to save some sanity by staying away from the sticks, but my head is still trying to implode. One moment I entertain some slight hope that this pg might be ok really, then I end up feeling all the dread about never getting past 6 weeks.

I can go and get a scan at 6wks, so my new strategy is not to change anything until then, keep taking the drugs and not testing. After the scan I will make plans.
Only a week and a half to go...

Sending good and sticky vibes. Hope you get to scan and it's good news.

Ahh, I can only imagine the mental torture tanny. I hope you've got some stuff planned to try to keep your mind occupied elsewhere as far as possible, and you know where we all are when you need some posifrickentivity! Keeping everything crossed for you and hope the week and a bit goes quickly!

Hey ladies, just saying hello as a newbie. You're all hilarious and caring in equal measure. Glad there is some refreshing fish throwing for the more mad moments (had a few myself). Trying for the first time for last 5mnths and no idea what I'm doing! X

Teresa, that's so frustrating about your bug. Hope you are feeling better. Are you sure you ovd when you think? Sometimes being ill can delay it. I love downpipe! Our living room doesn't get tonnes of natural light so we're going for Carnforth white (why is pale grey called white?) to go with our duck egg blue sofas.

Hey Tanny, good to hear from you :-) Hope the week and a half goes fast for you.

Doctor I'd hardly call passing second time a failure and as for having a baby, you're not failing as firstly it's not your fault what is happening and secondly it's just taking a little while. Here endeth the posifrickentivity sermon Mini fish slap with a prawn

Oh and welcome ewok. Sorry you find yourself here but we're a good bunch to have around when the going is tough.

Thanks Penguin, I have issues around success/failure going back to my time at super selective grammar. I'm trying to work through it though

Hi ewok I'm new here too - hopefully we won't be here long (no offence intended!) Tanny congrats and fingers well and truly crossed for you :). Penguin F&B cornforth is another favourite of mine and definitely on my 'to use' list if we move (a potential move is proving a very effective but expensive distraction from ttc!) Tbh, I'm not entirely sure when I ovulated - the sticks didn't detect it. Some months I get a bit of pain but nothing this month. Can I ask for opinions as to which ovulation detecting sticks are best?

Morning ladies!
Tanny - sorry you're feeling a bit down in the dumps, but can totally understand. Fingers crossed the next week and a half flys by. Just take it day by day. We'll be thinking of you.

Doctor - you are not a failure! Think we all have moments like this, but remember it's not your fault. You will get there, we all will

Welcome newbies, sorry you're joining us, but I've found this thread very helpful and cathartic. Hope you're stays aren't too long, but enjoy the ride while you're here.

9dpo .....temp dip yesterday and a rise today... Going to the fridge to retrieve a salmon to slap my own face for even thinking it could be implantation!

penguin is totally right doctor. Personally, I live by the mantra "first the worst, second the best, third the one with the hairy chest" EXCEPT for when I am racing my fellow commuters (eg first person to reach the ramp after getting off the train), then I must always win, even if I have to change the rules in my head so I can still be the winner (eg first woman in a blue coat to reach the ramp after getting off the train)

Love the rule changing Parsley!